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Igal
Igal

Reputation: 6093

Sending PHP mail from Windows server

I have a form on my page. When the user hits the Send button - it's supposed to send an email with the details he entered in the form. Up until recently the form was hosted on a Linux server and I had no problem with it - the mail was sent and received. Recently I had to move to shared Windows server and since the move the mail is not sent. Here's the code that supposed to send the mail:

function send_contact_form($strName, $strEmail, $strPhone, $strMessage)
{
$to = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'From the site';
$message =  '<html lang="HE">
            <head>
            <title>
                '.$subject.'
            </title>
            </head>
            <body style="text-align:right; direction:rtl; font-family: Arial;">
                Name: '.$strName.'<br>Email: '
                .$strEmail.'<br>Phone: '.$strPhone
                .'<br><br>Message: <br>'.$strMessage.'
            </body>
        </html>';       
$email = $strEmail;
$header  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";
$header .= "From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email" . "\r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);
}

Upvotes: 6

Views: 44693

Answers (2)

Fluff
Fluff

Reputation: 548

In a windows environment PHP uses SMTP insted of the Linux binary sendmail (or replacement)

You need to edit php.ini according to this page to be able to send e-mail via the mail() function.

Upvotes: 7

Flash Thunder
Flash Thunder

Reputation: 12036

On Linux, PHP uses an application called sendmail. Of course there is no similar applicaion on Windows. As php.ini file says, to be able to work with mail function, you need to setup mail server coordinates. If You don't have mail server, it is not possible to send emails from PHP. Of course You could use some external server like gmail.

Upvotes: 0

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